Chinese Learn About Canadian Politics
Sunday, March 3, 2013 @ 9:22 AM
Victoria, B.C. – Up to 125 civil servants from China will learn about Canada’s political system and public policy as part of a new five-year agreement between Executive Education at the Sauder School of Business at UBC and the Province of Guangdong.
The public administration training program will see annual classes of 25 officials from the provincial, municipal and county levels spending 30 days at Sun Yat-Sen University in Guangzhou and 30 days attending Sauder classes on the UBC campus in Vancouver. Courses will focus on Canada’s political system and public-policy analysis, including visits to governmental departments and panel discussions.
Seven education marketing managers have been visiting educational institutions throughout the province as part of an orientation tour. The mission has included school visits and roundtables in the Okanagan, Prince George, Vancouver Island and the Lower Mainland.
“In the BC Jobs Plan we made commitments to double our international presence and to station education marketing staff in our offices in key international markets” says Minister of Jobs, Tourism and Skills Training and Minister Responsible for Labour, Pat Bell. “We are helping B.C. businesses, communities and educational institutions forge innovative partnerships in markets that are driving economic growth. Our international trade and investment network promotes British Columbia as an attractive destination for international students, tourists and investment.”
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I wonder if they are going to offer seats to provincial and municipal politicians in BC, along with their staffers, so that they too can learn about how our political system should operate?
It is called “getting the ethnic vote out”. ;-)
They could be visiting the Chinese communities in the GVRD to let them know the importance of putting Chinese-Canadian candidates in place and then voting for them to make sure the Chinese way of thinking is brought to Victoria.
Of course, if we have challenges to get candidates we could always institute a foreign politician program to match the foreign worker program. Limit the period to one term in office.
It is all in the interest of getting along with emerging countries …… at the moment it is difficult to say whether Canada or China is the emerging country …;-)
Education system? That brings to mind a subject called “siesmic upgrading” in our schools. Which draws a parallel to after- earthquake piles of rubble in China once upon a time called schools. Another point would be “re-education” camps. We won’t have those here and I doubt the Chinese will rid themselves of them after we here in BC show them how great we get along without them.
Sure hope none of them are “spies”. Please check. Thanks.
“Chinese learn about Canadian Politics”
OMG~~the jokes they will be able to tell when they get home!!!!
“Chinese learn about Canadian Politics”
OMG~~the jokes they will be able to tell when they get home!!!!
I look forward to someone asking one of these guests how the Chinese government deals with “homelessness”. A new and independant look from a foreign country might be able to enlighten us on how to help these unfortunate people. Social housing in China? Hmmmmm?
They have the communist version of the ‘company town’, Harbinger. Rent is subsidised by the State using national credit, so is food, and a number of other things so wages can be kept low and it can always be made to seem as if their companies are competitive globally. The Japanese did the same thing, only on a smaller scale, and were always able to elbow their way into any other countries’ markets in any sector they chose to target, no matter how hard those countries tried to tariff their goods and keep them out. We haven’t got a clue when it comes to using national credit to best advantage ~ even in the perverse way in which they’re using it to build up their ‘State’ In their system the ‘individual’ exists solely to serve that State ~ which only allows him to have what it wants him to have.
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The Chinese still have not perfected that system to the same sophistication that Canada and the USA have. ;-)
Communist version of the “company town”, eh? Prince George? Hmmm? Have to ask Harper. Should get our population up a few thousand. Who doesn’t like subsidies? Hands up. Free enterprise is too expensive anyway.
“We haven’t got a clue when it comes to using national credit to best advantage”
That is true enough. We hand our national credit to China without them having to invade the country militarily.
Sort of like buying Manhattan for trinkets …. ;-)
Kind of.
WHY?
“We hand our national credit to China without them having to invade the country militarily.”
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That we do. When Li Kao Sheng, that Hong Kong billionaire bought all the Expo 86 lands in downtown Vancouver to re-develop for high-end waterfront housing he borrowed all the money he needed right here in Canada. From CIBC, I think it was. Don’t think they asked for a mortgage on his Hong Kong villa! Quite likely most foreign takeovers of Canadian companies are financed the same way. The foreign buyer’s got nothing to lose, except what’s been bought. And they bought it all on borrowed dough from here. No sense invading us and making us all slaves. The way it is now is way better, we get to bear the cost of our own depreciation!
It was Grace Mcarthy who decided who was going to buy that land. Not Willie Wooden Shoes. Anyway it is my understanding after buying that land he sold 20% of it and got most of his money back on the purchase price. If only Stalin sold rope to westerners. Alas.
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